Mrs. Lasker, it's good to be back with you again
today, and I have been anticipating, of
course, a resumption of your most
interesting story. Would you like to
take over at this point?

Lasker:

Well, I think I said in our last interview that I
was divorced in 1934 in Reno, in
December, from Paul Reinhardt, whose
alcoholism by this time had been very
stressful and difficult for me to cope
with. And as I found no way of helping
him, I thought that I'd better help
myself by not being a victim of it any
longer, and I went there with Mrs. James
Warburg, who also got a divorce and who
was known as the songwriter, Kay Swift,
and who was my great friend than and has
been all the rest of my life. Her mother
had an important influence on my life,
Mrs. Dorr. Mrs. Dorr died of cancer in
the late '20s. This was a very
influential event in my life because I
loved her and was very distressed about
it and couldn't understand how it could
happen really.

Q:

You saw a great deal of her?

Lasker:

I had seen a lot of her in the '20s, after I had
come to New York.

Well, between my divorce and April 1, 1939, when
I met Albert Lasker, I had made a number
of new friends and spent a great deal of
time supporting myself, through the
Hollywood Pattern